yonder wrote on Jun 25, 2011, 21:18:"Paradox Interactive are one of the big players in the games industry" <--- they are?! I mean *I* love them but I've always consider them a tiny, niche developer with an incredibly loyal and devoted fanbase.

Pretty sure they're not a developer, but a publisher? Or do they have a development arm as well?

Whoa, steady on there Space Captain. People are allowed to express their opinions (I think they call that a "forum").

And yes, the premise of the game is mining and crafting, everything else is negotiable?

Though, if I read the dictionary definition of premise (state by way of introduction), describing Minecraft as a "sandbox world of endless exploration and creation" fits quite nicely. So yeh, pull your head in

(Note: I'd love more story to give more tangible meaning to the survival mode)

Sounds like you're a big fish in a small pond. Find a server with a higher quality of opponent.

In a way you are griefing by playing on a noob server. You're also not growing your own skillset and I'd make an assumption that you'd get your ass handed to you at higher levels of play.

That assumption was based on my own experiences with CS beta. I used to think I was the bomb, playing on my ISP's server headshots all round, then I tried competetive play and it was a whole new world.